How to remove DRM from Rhapsody music for iPod iPhone

[dudude]

Music purchased from Rhapsody is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don't continue to pay, you won't keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Rhapsody and find some songs in Rhapsody that are unavailable in iTunes store, yet you do want to enjoy these songs witn your new iPod, you are meeting the headache of Naspter being incompatible with iPod. So the following tutorial should be the solution.

The tools you will need:

TuneClone Audio Converter
Rhapsody Software
iPod
iTunes Library

1. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter

Download TuneClone (fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the "Settings" button. In the pop-up dialog of "Options", you can specify the "Output Folder", "Output Filenames", "Output Format" (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the "Folder" button after the whole process.



2. Create a new playlist in Rhapsody

In the center left panel of Rhapsody, navigate to "Playlist". Then in the bottom left corner, click "New" to create a new playlist.

Click "File" and select "New Playlist" to create a new playlist in Rhapsody.

Drag and drop the music you are ready to burn to the new playlist from Rhapsody Library.



3. Make CD burning settings in Rhapsody

Click "Tools" and select "Preference..." from the drop-down list. Click "CD Burning" from the list in the left panel. In the "CD Burner Options", choose TuneClone virtual CD drive as preferred CD burner.



4. Start to burn

Click the "Burn CD" button to start the burning and encoding process.

After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.



The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the Rhapsody music playlist in your Rhapsody, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

[dudude]

As the music in iTunes is encrypted with DRM, you cannot directly put it on any non-Apple MP3 player. The easiest way is:

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.
2. Burn your playlist to make an audio CD.
3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 files.

Or you can get some software to help you. I use TuneClone M4P to MP3 Converter to do this. Though not free, it is very well worth a try. It generates a virtual CD drive to help to remove the DRM element without having to waste actual CD's.

[leno]

is it easy to use? or anyone can recommend freeware? thanks.

[direwolf]

You can use Itunes7 to convert them to an MP3 format. Itunes can be found at old apps under Music Utilities and at old version under Multimedia.

I use it to rip CD's to MP3 format for my MP3 players.

I hope this helps.

Edit: I forgot to mention, Itunes is freeware. If you need help to set it up to convert to MP3 let me know and I will post the setup here.

[calle]

To remove drm protection and convert files you can use the following media convertor:
http://www.tuneraft.com/
It converts both protected and unprotected audio/video files and is very easy to use.

[Kover85]

For me MelodyCan is the best software for different players. It can remove drm and convert files to different formats. You can try it_))